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Joan Touzet commented on COUCHDB-1894:
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To clarify, it goes beyond security concerns, though those are certainly important. The view server protocol is designed specifically to build and generate views, not to allow streams of information to be arbitrarily processed for non-view-generation concerns.
I'm perfectly on board with the desire and effort to couple couch server-side to better and bigger things, but we should not be making an explicit statement that abusing the viewserver protocol is the right way of going about that. In its current state that's exactly what this is, and it doesn't belong in the shipping product.
> Add experimental NodeJS query server
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> Key: COUCHDB-1894
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1894
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: JavaScript View Server
> Reporter: Jan Lehnardt
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> Let’s clean up and merge Jason Smith’s Node.js query server into ASF land and ship it as opt-in and experimental.
> I’ve prepared a branch that does the following:
> - remove fancy extra features like app server handlers and the visual debugger support for now
> - make it a drop-in replacement for couchjs
> - bundle the code in src/couchjs-node
> - add a new query server language “nodejs” that people can use
> - include sandbox.js from https://github.com/KlausTrainer/sandbox.js (not hooked up yet)
> The query server is not installed by default and users can install them in two ways:
> 1. from source:
> $ cd src/couchjs-node
> $ npm link
> 2. from NPM:
> $ npm install couchjs # add @1.x.x for once the module mirrors CouchDB version numbers for forward compat)
> And then they can uncomment and update the [query_server] line in local.ini.
> * * *
> Open work items on the view server:
> - make it work with CLI tests
> - fix remaining test cases in web test runner
> - hook up sandbox.js from https://github.com/KlausTrainer/sandbox.js
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